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Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

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• I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Point
  • Sincerity
  • Pessimism

• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Long
  • You
  • Demon

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
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• I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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  • Painting

• Radio is for driving.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Driving
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• My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • WIld

• They're not poodles, they're art.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Art

• Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Different
  • Creative
  • Now

• The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Green
  • Difference

• I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Work
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  • Memory

• For me, the greatest thing a movie can do is rivet you while you're watching but also give you something to chew on for days and weeks after you've seen it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
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• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
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• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Peace
  • Myself

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
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• I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.

  

  Tao Lin
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• 'Last Man Standing' is overall a lot of comedy. And I love doing that.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
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• At that time the African American community was not a large reading community. They learned from observation and participation. So we had a lot of visuals that they could identify with. Photographs and short captions, as opposed to long, drawn-out essays and editorials. They were visual interpretations of the conditions people lived in. Inner cities, poor communities. Combined with revolutionary imagery. The people saw themselves in the artwork. They became the heroes. They could see their uncles in it. They could see their fathers or their brothers and sisters in the art.

  

  Emory Douglas
  • Learned
  • Observation
  • Visual

• The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Reality
  • Trust

• Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

  

  Gao Xingjian